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A decade of curious insects : some of them not describ'd before, shewn in their natural size, and as they appear enlarg'd before the Lucernal microscope, in which the solar apparatus is artificially illuminated : With their history, characters, manners, and places of abode, on ten quarto plates, and their explanations : drawn and engraved from nature (1773)

Author: Hill, John, 1714?-1775; Barber, Herbert Spencer, 1882-1950, former owner DSI
Subject: Insects; Insects; Microscopes
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, in St. James's-Street, and sold by B. White, in Fleet-Street; P. Elmsly, in the Strand; Parker, in Cornhill; Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row; Ridley, St. James's Street; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh
Year: 1773
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39088002785152
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book)

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"Ladies who may chuse to paint these insects themselves may have sets of the cuts on royal paper printed pale for that purpose"--Verso of t.p

Includes index

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

BM (NH)

Horn & Schenkling. Index litt. entomologiae

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SCNHRB copy 39088002785152 has stamps: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, Jun. 29, 1916; accession no.: 236268. With ms. pencil note on t.p.: Purchased H.S. Barber. There are brief ms. ink annotations on some pages

SCNHRB copy has a modern blue and white paste-paper binding with blue morocco leather along the top and bottom edges, a gilt-tooled blue leather spine label, and light green endpapers. Some of the leaves have been repaired with tissue paper

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